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Particularly the second part of the novel is tiresomely preachy and moralizing. The plot gets really predictable at times, which is a bit infuriating when it happens just to fit the moralizing grand-scheme of the author. Otherwise, good stuff....Continua
"As young readers like to know 'how people look', we will take this moment to give them a little sketch of the four sisters, who sat knitting away in the twilight, while the December snow fell quietly without, and the fire crackled cheerfully within." Louisa May Alcott, writes the author.
We are in the middle of the nineteenth century and we go in a comfortable room, though the carpet is faded and the furniture very plain, for a good picture or two hung on the walls, books filled the recesses, chrysanthemums and Christmas roses bloomed in the windows, and a pleasant atmosphere of home peace pervaded it.
There is an old sofa, it is a regular patriarch of a sofa— long, broad, well-cushioned, and low, a trifle shabby, as well it might be, for the girls had slept and sprawled on it as babies, fished over the back, rode on the arms, and had menageries under it as children, and rested tired heads, dreamed dreams, and listened to tender talk on it as young women. They all love it, for it is a family refuge.
The parents are the refuge of the four sisters: their mother, is always ready to be their confidante, their father, who will come soon from the war, to be their friend, and both of hope and trust that their daughters, whether married or single, will be the pride and comfort of their lives.
Mrs March, their mother, believes it is important to help one another, to have daily duties which male leisure sweet when it comes, and to bear and forbear, that home might be comfortable and lovely to them all.
Work is a blessed solace. Hope and keep busy, and whatever happens, they have to remember that they never can be fatherless.
Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success, in spite of poverty.
Mrs. March is not ambitious for a splendid
fortune, a fashionable position, or a great name for her girls. She knows, by experience, how much genuine happiness can be had in a plain little house, where the daily bread is earned, and some privations give sweetness to the few pleasures.
The girls give their hearts into their mother's keeping, their souls into their father's, and to both parents, who live and labor so faithfully for them, they give a love that grows with their growth and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death.
Mrs. March knows that experience is an excellent teacher, and when it is possible she leaves her children to learn alone the lessons.
She always explains to her daughters that, poverty seldom daunts a sincere lover. Some of the best and most honored women she knew were poor girls, but so love worthy that they were not allowed to be old maids.
It is important to leave these things to time.
Time changes everything: for the fifteen- year-old Jo, who devoted herself to literature and to writing novels, love will make her show her heart one day.
And so the babies, whom Jo loves tenderly. Grief is the best opener of some hearts, and Jo is nearly ready for the bag.
Jo is a tomboy, she isn't a heroine of the novel she likes writing, she is only a struggling human girl like hundreds of others, and she just acts out her nature, being sad, cross, listless, or energetic, as the mood suggested.
Her anger never lasts long, her sisters use to say that they rather like to get Jo into a fury because she is such an angel afterward.
Poor Jo tries desperately to be good, but her bosom enemy is always ready to flame up and defeats her, and it takes years of patient effort to subdue it.
She often says she wants to do something splendid, no matter how hard, and now she has her wish. She decides that she will try and in her first attempt she finds the helps.
Jo has a sorrow, she is lonely, without the comfort of true love, until Professor Bhaer intends to marry her. She understands he carries the talisman that opens all hearts, and these simple people warmed to him at once, feeling even the more friendly because he was poor. For poverty enriches those who live above it, and is a sure passport to truly hospitable spirits.
Time changes everything, their mother is right: also for Margaret, the eldest of the four. She is sixteen and very pretty. She is 'fond of luxury' and her chief trouble is poverty. She finds it harder to bear than the others because she can remember a time when home was beautiful, life full of ease and pleasure, and want of any kind unknown. She tries not to be envious or discontented, but it is very natural that the young girl should long for pretty things, gay friends, accomplishments, and a happy life.
But as years passed, Meg spends her time in working as well as waiting, growing womanly in character, wise in housewifely arts, and prettier than ever, for love is a great beautifier.
Thanks to her marriage, Meg improves a lot:
how well she can talk, how much she knows about good, womanly impulses, thoughts, and feelings, how happy she is in husband and
children, and how much they are all doing for each other.
Time changes the destiny of Beth: Elizabeth, or Beth, as everyone called her, is a rosy, smooth- haired, bright-eyed girl of thirteen, with a shy manner, a timid voice, and a peaceful expression which is seldom disturbed. Her father calls her 'Little Miss Tranquility', and the name suits her excellently, for she seems to live in a happy world of her own, only venturing out to meet the few whom she trusts and loves.
As time goes by, Beth remains delicate long after the fever was a thing of the past. Not an invalid exactly, but never again the rosy, healthy creature she has been, yet always hopeful, happy, and serene, and busy with the quiet duties she loves, everyone's friend, and an angel in the house, long before those who love her most learned to know it.
It is the shadow of pain which touches the young face with such pathetic patience, but Beth seldom complains and always speaks hopefully of 'being better soon'.
When Beth leaves the old home for the new, she is joyful as her parents think her to meet death without fear.
Time changes everything, how true this sentence is!
Amy, the youngest of the four sisters, is a regular snow maiden, with blue eyes, and yellow hair and always carrying herself like
a young lady mindful of her manners.
Amy is with truth considered 'the flower of the family', for at sixteen she has the air and bearing of a full-grown woman, not beautiful, but possesses of that indescribable charm called grace. Her nose afflicts her, for it never would grow Grecian, so does her mouth,
being too wide, and having a decided chin.
One of her weaknesses is a desire to move in 'our best society'.
Money, position, fashionable accomplishments, and elegant manners are most desirable things in her eyes, she cultivates her aristocratic tastes and feelings, so that when the opportunity came she may be ready to take the place from which poverty now excludes her.
She wishes to be an artist, and go to Rome, and do fine pictures, and be the best artist in the whole world.
'Little Raphael,' as her sisters call her, has a decided talent for drawing, and is never so happy as when copying flowers, designing fairies, or illustrating stories with queer specimens of art.
She is a great favorite with her mates, being good-tempered and possessing the happy art of pleasing without effort. Her little airs and graces are much admired, so are her accomplishments, for besides her drawing, she can play twelve tunes, crochet, and read. She is so ambitious, but her heart is good and tender, and no matter how high she flies, she never will forget home.
And when she and Laurie, their rich neighbor, discover their mutual love, Amy understands
it is so beautiful to be loved as Laurie loves her.
Amy's nature grows sweeter, deeper, and more tender. Laurie grows more serious, strong, and firm.
Amy is the sun and Laurie the wind, in the fable, and the sun manages the man best.
She would have married him if he hadn't had a penny.
She is prouder of her handsome husband than of all his money. Laurie believes that rich people had no right to sit down and enjoy themselves, or let their money accumulate for others to waste.
They can have a good time themselves,
and add an extra relish to their own pleasure by giving other people a generous taste.
'Oh, my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this!' says Mrs March.
Her girls thanks to their parents' teaching, were now women with moral values, such as honesty, respect for life and self-control and
respect of the others.
The values that we choose help determine our behavior, our priorities, the ties that will make and the moral guidance we give to our children.
Il mio preferito da sempreLe sorelle " march" come vecchie amiche ormai...La mia piccola tradizione e' quella di rileggerlo il periodo natalizio E' magico
The mark of a good author is whether or not they can keep you interested, no matter the story they write. Louis May Alcott did it with this book. The March family are rather boring but the author managed to keep even the most minuscule things they do interesting. The story is set in mid-nineteenth century New England among a devoutly Christian family with 4 daughters. Although this doesn't really seem like my genre I gave it a try since it is considered an American classic. I enjoyed the book and never considered it boring even though I did often wonder why I kept reading. I would recommend this to anyone, at least to try....Continua
E' bellissima l'atmosfera di CASA che si avverte durante la lettura di questo primo incontro con la famiglia March.Sorelle davanti al camino nei lunghi inverni nevosi e prese dai loro passatempi, ricami, letture e recitazioni, nonchè dai loro genitori...benefattori di tutti per ciò che è loro possibile (l'una nell'assistere il circondato e l'altro in guerra) .
Nessuno dei personaggi interno alla famiglia mi dà l'idea di provare nessun sentimento negativo....troppo buoni e perfetti....gli unici umani sono Lori e suo nonno.


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Police in Florida have offered a startling excuse for having used a controversial "stingray" cellphone tracking gadget 200 times without ever telling a judge: the device's manufacturer made them sign a non-disclosure agreement that they say prevented them from telling the courts.
The shocking revelation came during an appeal over a 2008 sexual battery case in Tallahassee in which the suspect also stole the victim's cellphone. Using the stingray – which simulates a cellphone tower in order to trick nearby mobile devices into connecting to it and revealing their location – police were able to track him to an apartment.
During recent proceedings in the case, authorities revealed that they had used the equipment at least 200 additional times since 2010 without disclosing this to courts and obtaining a warrant.
Although the specific device and manufacturer are identified in neither the one court document available for the 2008 case, nor in a video of a court proceeding, the ACLU says in a blog post today that the device is "likely a stingray made by the Florida-based Harris Corporation."
Harris is the leading maker of stingrays in the U.S., and the ACLU has long suspected that the company has been loaning the devices to police departments throughout the state for product testing and promotional purposes. As the court document notes in the 2008 case, "the Tallahassee Police Department is not the owner of the equipment."
The ACLU now suspects these police departments may have all signed non-disclosure agreements with the vendor and used the agreement to avoid disclosing their use of the equipment to courts.
"The police seem to have interpreted the agreement to bar them even from revealing their use of Stingrays to judges, who we usually rely on to provide oversight of police investigations," the ACLU writes.
Harris refused to comment, instead redirecting questions to law enforcement.
The secretive technology is generically known as a stingray or IMSI catcher, but the Harris device is also specifically called the Stingray. When mobile phones – and other wireless communication devices like air cards – connect to the stingray, it can see and record their unique ID numbers and traffic data, as well as information that points to the device's location. By moving the stingray around, authorities can triangulate the device's location with much more precision than they can get through data obtained from a mobile network provider's fixed tower location.
The government has long asserted that it doesn't need to obtain a probable-cause warrant to use the devices because they don't collect the content of phone calls and text messages but rather operate like pen-registers and trap-and-traces, collecting the equivalent of header information.
This is the first time, however, that a contract with the vendor has been cited as a reason for not obtaining a warrant. The discovery of this hidden detail was made by CNET reporter Declan McCullagh earlier this year.
The 2008 Florida case – State v. Thomas (.pdf) – is currently sealed, though the ACLU has filed a motion to unseal the records.
The case involves James L. Thomas who was convicted of sexual battery and petit theft.
According to the appellate court judges, after a young woman reported on September 13, 2008 that she had been raped and that her purse, containing a cellphone, had been stolen, police tracked the location of her phone about 24 hours later to the apartment of Thomas' girlfriend.
"The investigators settled on a specific apartment 'shortly after midnight' or 'approximately 1:00 to 2:00 a.m.' on September 14, 2008," the court wrote. "For the next few hours, six or seven police officers milled around outside the apartment, but made no effort to obtain a search warrant."
They did not want to obtain a search warrant to enter the apartment "because they did not want to reveal information [to a judge] about the technology they used to track the cellphone signal," the appellate judges note.
Around 5 a.m., police knocked on the apartment door, but the suspect's girlfriend refused to let them in without a warrant. They forced their way in, ordered her and Thomas to exit, then searched the apartment. After they found the victim's purse and cellphone, they arrested Thomas.
Authorities opted not to get a warrant either for the use of the Stingray or the search of the apartment, simply because they didn't want to tell the judge what they were using to locate the suspect, a matter the ACLU finds troubling.
"Potentially unconstitutional government surveillance on this scale should not remain hidden from the public just because a private corporation desires secrecy. And it certainly should not be concealed from judges," the ACLU noted.
Authorities even refused to tell Thomas's attorney how they had tracked his client to the apartment. A judge finally forced the government to disclose the surveillance technique they had used, but only after the government insisted the court be closed. The proceedings were also sealed to prevent the information from leaking to the public.
The truth came out only after Thomas appealed his conviction, asserting that the police violated his Fourth Amendment right in seizing evidence.
It was in the unsealed appellate opinion that the ACLU discovered the reason for the secrecy.
The judges revealed that the reason authorities didn't obtain a search warrant and didn't want to disclose their surveillance technique in an open court was because of the NDA. But that wasn't all. A video of oral arguments before the appellate judges revealed more.
When the government attorney tried to argue in court that the police had planned to obtain a warrant to enter the apartment, one of the judges interrupted.
"No, no, no, no, no," he said. "I think this record makes it very clear they were not going to get a search warrant because they had never gotten a search warrant for this technology."
His fellow judge then interjected loudly, "Two-hundred times they have not."
The ACLU was surprised by the admission.
"[Wh]en police use invasive surveillance equipment to surreptitiously sweep up information about the locations and communications of large numbers of people, court oversight and public debate are essential," the group noted in its post.
But the possibility that an NDA may have been the excuse for not disclosing the technology was an even greater concern. [A – video of the oral arguments is available on the court's web site. Discussion of the technology begins at 9:15; mention of the 200 times they used the technology without a warrant occurs around 18:00.]
The ACLU has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with 30 police and sheriff departments in Florida to determine how widespread the use of the stingray is and how often its use has been concealed from courts.
Use of stingray technology goes back at least 20 years. In a 2009 Utah case, an FBI agent described using a cell site emulator more than 300 times over a decade and indicated that they were used on a daily basis by U.S. Marshals, the Secret Service, and other federal agencies.
The systems are not cheap. According to a 2008 price list obtained by Public Intelligence, the Harris Stingray was priced at $75,000 for the basic device, plus an additional $22,000 - $5,000 for various software packages for use with it. But the police in Florida appear to have obtained the devices for free or on lease from the maker.
While the government has argued in other cases that it does not need a warrant to use the devices, it conceded in one case in Arizona that it did need a warrant to use the device in that particular case because it involved locating a Verizon air card being used inside the suspect's apartment.
In the Thomas case in Florida, however, the appellate judges noted that they were considering the suspect's appeal only on grounds that police did not obtain a search warrant for his apartment, not on grounds that they did not obtain a search warrant for the use of the surveillance device.
"For purposes of decision, however, we assume the police acted lawfully up to the point that they forcibly entered the apartment," they wrote in their November opinion. "It is not clear that there was ever a ruling on the legality of the cellphone tracking methods used below."
The trial court initially ruled that the apartment search was legal, due to exigent circumstances, and therefore evidence obtained in the search was legal, but the appellate court reversed this and found that the girlfriend had only given her consent after she was forced to leave the apartment and stand outside in her night clothes, and after police had already begun to search the apartment.
Update 11:50 am: To add information about CNET reporter's discovery of the finding.

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David Thomson at the book signing and talk for his latest work, The Big Screen. Photo: Belem Destefani
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I'm installing bluetooth for my Debian installation (non desktop) and I wonder about the daemon.
The guide states that in order to start it I have to type:
/etc/init.d/bluetooth start
but really, I want to do this every time the computer starts up -- but the usb dongle is not always connected.
Can I still do it, and how do I add it (rc?) so it starts up every time?


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Quick Info Dump on Upgrading Computers, IMO that is
by, 20-06-18 at 10:26 (10744 Views)
I like (just as well) make do & mend & I adore a bang for me buck. Here's what I've found over the years.
Part 1: Laptops
The least easy to take apart. And the shortest lived. Some even have vital things soldered in-notably apples. Generally speaking if it was a decent quality (not necc high spec) machine to start with it's prob worth it. But screens do not last forever (not a prob, simp plug in an external monitor) the socket where you plug the power in can snap or detach from mainboard (fixable but will need a COMPLETE tear down to the bottom of the case) & generally more fragile. Battery will almost certainly hold sod all charge.
For once you want a low mileage machine. If it's seen less action, keyboards will be fresher & those screen invertors won't have seen that many hours. This is all about upgrading the internals, so spec we DGAS about.
What I would start with is something like a beyond entry grade in Sony Vaio, Lenovo Thinkpads, Toshibas aren't bad & the better Acers none too shabby at all. I hate every single HP machine I've ever worked on, plus in the past they're pulled some right weasely moves over bad chips in them. The other thing is screen size. You might as well, seeing as what with the battery this isn't going to need to be that portable) go with a 17". At least you can do some work on that & believe me for an extended period it's a lot nicer than a 15".
Another aspect is that you could treat a laptop as a 'black box'. i.e. just like a tower. Plug in your fav keyboard & mouse, you fav monitor(s if it can be docked, which mine is), close the lid & then it's just a slim thing that could live under your filing tray. If it's in a dock all you do is left it off, stick it into your bag & take it with you. This is my own arrangement. FWIW I have only one laptop, it's old, but it's business class premium quality & I've got at it too with a 500GB Samsung Evo SSD & 24GB RAM. About £2400 to have bought new back at the time. Heavy.
Addendum. Apples. Not all are bastards, only the more recent ones which is beyond the scope of make do & mend. Bit you're going to have to do your homework very thoroughly. And the last time I did look into this, looked like these are old enough to only see 4GB of RAM. I could be wrong-be nice if I was! Because Apple stuff keeps a value-you look on ebay. But as I'll say later, everyone thinks they need an i5 in it & these ones sure don't, & can't. So if you think you can turn a dime on upgrading the older macbooks I'm afraid you missed that boat a fair while ago.
Part 2: Towers
These are a bit like working in the engine bay of an old american car, vs a brand new turbo tech fiesta. There's plenty of space to get at everything. Plus no-one wants them anymore. Which is great for people like me.
For buttons you can get your old retired towers back into service (so long as SATA connections for the drives).. Good for media servers, proper DLNA NAS, managing all your CCTV needs. The only components you will prob need to swap out are any old/ original drives (although all my old IDEs are still fine) & the PSU (these degrade & are always where the corners are cut unless it was top dollar in the 1st place-still degrades though), which in a tower are all simple.
Look-£150 for the enclosure alone! FFS.
Caveat-I'm not trade, but I muck about a fair bit with old shite. My personal list for when I sifting through old tech down the recyclcing centre:
Dual Core CPU. Might be called something like Intel Core Duo. If you're really lucky you might find an AMD multi-core cpu/gpu, because whoever had it didn't know what was inside it. (everyone thinks they need as i5 minimum these days. See part 3 below for a discussion on exactly this).
Not DDR2 RAM. That's stupidly expensive even on ebay (wrong-only 4GB laptop sticks are)
DDR3 RAM. I tend to pocket this whenever I see it. Same with DDR2 laptop ram too.
If the RAM has Kingson branding labels have it regardless. Fastest & best prices realised for anything Kingston on ebay.
SATA hard drive connections
Known branded power supply
The original Windows code on a sticker somewhere if that's what you need. Win 7 is the last really good one.
Nice extras-a graphics card. Not that I've found one though.
Don't get over fussed if there no drive in it. Never trust a 2nd hand one anyhow, but FWIW 1TB & at a push 2TB ones are more robust than anything larger. I've a WD green 500GB in my NAS, it's been running 24/7 for the last 5 years.
IMO Minimum Needs List for a Mint Linux System
>2.0GHz single core CPU-pref capable of 64 bit operation though (don't forget you can get a vastly better off ebay)
Min for Windows:
3 GB RAM (pref 4GB actually, but it will run OK on just 3-video can be a bit choppy though)
>2.2 GHz dual core cpu
When I say minimum I mean that will actually be able to do some work as it is.
What you're going to do in either scenario is max out the RAM in it (no point in going above 8GB-tried that), put a really fast CPU into it, & most importantly of all, run a solid state drive (SSD). the SSD is the real game changer here-it's how you can get away with such a small amount of RAM.
FWIW the main system here is a tall tower. Quad core AMD 3.9-4.5Ghz. Upgraded to 16GB Ram, gfx card, ssd plus conventional, shit load of fans etc. I did actually buy this new a few years ago. About £200 & when I worked it out that was cheaper than I could have done it myself. Anyhow nothing phases it. I've 3 more. One a dual core, which is an entire duplicate of our Office one. That's a total system substitute, in that should the main one explode or something, this can simply be plugged & one is back up & running 2 minutes after the smoke has cleared. The next one is only a single core on 2GB of RAM. It's heavily overclocked & has a spiffy Gfx card to take the load off. It runs win7 64 fine, but not 10 64. It works excellently with Mint Linux 64. The 3rd is so old it only has IDE drive connections & is a 32 bit cpu. I only bothered to have that back up to overclock it & store all my old IDE drives in it. However, it does run Mint Linux 32 bit fine & IIRC Win7 32 too. Not that it matters.
If you want to do be able to do serious work within Windows, has to be dual core & somewhere around 3Ghz on these oldies.
Part 3: Cpu Fixations.
Priority 1: can you actually get at it? Quite a lot in laptops are hard wired in, soldered to the board. Later apples are very much like that-hell even the RAM is soldered in.
If you fancy a car analogy I reckon Intels go like this:
i3=4 in line basic no cleverness FWD Ford Mondeo. More than adequate but sometimes you do shout at it 'get a move on you bloody slug'.
i5=6 in line, RWD with traction control, clever mapping & a blower which come into force only when booted hard. Fun & the very best could be a reasonably competitive track day car.
i7. Beware, not all of these are actually 4 core. If full fat 4, then akin to a V8, AWD, ditto blower & very clever fuelling. Specialised rally vehicle.
The actual speed of it is equitable with engine displacement. Mere mortals don't tend to hurl their cars around, even photoshop isn't asking it to take a hairpin. But we do like to be able to overtake those bloody caravans. So the 2.5l is rather better than a 2.0, or heaven forbid, a 1.8Ghz cpu.. .
The smart money for a long time has always favoured a fast i5. It has a turbo facility, hyper-threading etc which the i3s do not. BTW I think we're now into the 8th generation of the Intel i ranges now. So you'll prob find an older one on ebay/ down the dump. Newer is better, but speed is king.
BIG WARNING ON OLDER i7. The recent ones are full fat quad cores. However the older ones weren't necc those, because they did come in dual cores too. Same as the i5s, which now you can see is the origination of 'i5 nearly as good as i7', but 50% of the price.
Now you do have to do your homework with these. Easiest way is to copy someone on a forum with same computer as yours who confirms it works. The basic is it has to be the same socket classification.
But that's not the whole picture. Faster, lower nano spec lithography all good, but it comes at a cost-heat. Heat due to more of the buggers, but also because the interconnecting 'wires' are thinner. And faster means more heat too. Which is why a figure you should look at is the TDP wattage, esp in a laptop. You want it to be same (or lower) than the range of cpus OFFICIALLY listed out for your exact model. TBF the next models up usually only have a better heatsink on them, & you can do a lot with a hoover & using the best thermal paste when you put your cpu back in. Actually you'd be amazed by the amount of fluff & dust on the fan blades, & that the paste has invariably gone thin & solid. It's well worth doing that anyhow, regardless of upgrading the cpu. Age & heat you see.
On a tower this is rather easier as all you need is a superior quality (bigger & copper) cpu heatsink & really good fan on top of it, plus higher throughput case fans. e.g. all my towers have front fans to suck cool air in & rear to blow the heated air out (exhaust). No such thing as too much cooling!
You also have to be a little careful about the bridge technolgies too, as well as the socket type. e.g Sandy Bridge was superseded by Ivy Bridge, but they're socket compatible. It wasn't exactly the biggest leap in the tech, more of a hop really & Intel reckon you can swap them around. But whilst I'd suck & see if I had one in front of me (& you'd need to have the latest BIOS flashed) I wouldn't risk buying a different bridge to my mobo. Not unless forums confirmed it would work for my specific make, model & version of machine. And even then I'm not sure, unless the newer was a lot cheaper, which it rarely is. I suppose it might be a bit like sticking the Ford RS 2.0 litre engine into the 1.6 Mexico, but only the short engine. So you'd be retaining & running the mexico's carbs & current setup. Plus it might run too hot for the vehicle's current cooling system, which was after all designed for the 1.6. And unlike a car (where obv you could swap over the carbs, rad etc, & adjust the fueling anyhow) you canna do that with a laptop.
Corrections & superior analogies from the professionals, trade & better bodgers most welcome please


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The Booze Book
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The Booze Book, published in 1967 by Determined Productions, with design and illustrations by John Astrop & Eric Hill, comprises of sixty-six recipes by June Dutton and Edith Vanocur, who are described in the introduction notes as "a couple of attractive housewives with an uncommon background in booze." Apparently, they both had husbands who were deeply involved in the social madness of Washington, D.C. politics, therefore they became increasingly aware of the need for a concise compendium of interesting workable drinks. Anyway, 'tis the season to be jolly―and as good a time as any to post about this one. I've included a selection of the recipes plus a few of their tried and tested cures for ailing boozers at the end of the page. So...down the hatch, bottoms up, cheers and Merry Xmas!
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As a technology Hibernate is a open source, free Java package that makes it easy to work with relational databases. It is a pure Java object-relational mapping (ORM) and persistence framework that allows you to map plain old Java objects to relational database tables using (XML) configuration files.Its purpose is to relieve the developer from a significant amount of relational data persistence-related programming tasks.
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We are familiar with Model/Pojo class and Relational Database. Here Object means Mode/Pojo class and Relational means the databases. By hbm.xml file we represent the mapping between Object and Relational databases.
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It should have a language or an API for specifying queries that refer to the classes and the properties of classes an ability for specifying mapping metadata.
It should have a technique for ORM implementation to interact with transactional objects to perform lazy association fetching, dirty checking, and other optimization functions.
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The entire application, including the user interface, designed around the relational model and SQL based relational operations.
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The entities are represented as classes that are mapped manually to the relational tables. The code is hidden from the business logic using specific design patterns. This approach is successful for applications with a less number of entities, or applications with common, metadata-driven data models.
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The application is designed around an object model. The SQL code is generated at build time. And the associations between objects are supported by the persistence mechanism, and queries are specified using an object-oriented expression language. This is best suited for medium-sized applications with some complex transactions.
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How many people can you serve with 1,200 pounds of wild salmon? On Canada Day July 1, chefs at Steveston's annual Salmon Festival Barbecue will prepare 2,300 plates of fresh sockeye expertly cooked over open alder wood fire pits.
Steveston knows fish. Referred to as Salmonopolis and home to the "Monster" Gulf of Georgia Cannery, a national historic site, this scenic West Coast fishing community is just a 20-minute drive south of Vancouver. It's a perfect day trip for canny Canada Day celebrants looking to get out of town, without traveling too far.
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City of Steamboat Springs working to finalize four possible building sites for new police station
Steamboat Springs — The second community meeting held Thursday night to discuss the idea of building a new police station on a corner of Rita Valentine Park went very much like the first community meeting.
Most people who attended made it clear they would oppose it.
City Manager Deb Hinsvark said Monday she understands the angst of community members who are critical of the idea and opposed to it still being on the table, but she said it must be weighed next month by the City Council on a larger scale.
"The thing we wanted the community to understand is that while we have 110 people who are very invested in letting us know this is not going to make them happy, we have a police station we need to provide for 12,000 people," Hinsvark said.
She told the large audience in Centennial Hall the city never has had a fully functioning police station, and it desperately needs one.
In the coming weeks, city staff will continue vetting four possible building locations for the new headquarters, including the park and the current emergency services campus on Yampa Street.
The other two alternatives haven't been revealed, Hinsvark said, because they still are being weighed and identified by city staff.
"We have three of the sites pretty well identified. The fourth one we're going back and forth on," she said, adding each carries its own list of pros and cons.
She said at least one of the alternatives would require a land purchase, and it isn't being named because of ongoing price negotiations.
She said the costliest site the city has explored for a new police station carried a price tag of $1.6 million.
The Rita Valentine site surfaced late in what has been an extensive search for a new and more efficient home for Steamboat's police force.
In March 2012, the search started west of downtown where 17 sites were explored, ranging from the Stock Bridge Transit Center to the current TIC headquarters. But it now is concentrated between 13th Street and Pine Grove Road, where about 85 percent of the city's police calls are generated.
Public Safety Director Joel Rae said this area would be the most ideal and effective location for a new police station.
As the city grows, even in the west, Rae said the city anticipates more and more calls still will come mostly from the base area and downtown.
And addressing some concerns from audience members who felt that a central location isn't as important because the city's police force is constantly patrolling the streets away from the station, Rae said officers are often at the headquarters for required briefings, and the location is important.
Hinsvark said having the station centrally located would save fuel costs by cutting the distance patrol vehicles have to drive to and from the building.
Rae also responded to community members who are suggesting the city open a new satellite office instead of building a new station.
"We are not a big enough police department where substations and satellite stations truly work for us," he said.
Rita Valentine Park meets all five of the criteria the city has identified for a police station site. The qualifications include 2 to 3 acres of land, a central location, multiple access points to town and U.S. Highway 40, available utilities and an affordable land cost.
If the City Council decides to move forward with the idea Oct. 15, Hinsvark said a special election could be held in May for voters to decide whether to rezone 3 acres of the nearly 40-acre park to accommodate the station.
Steamboat's Parks and Recreation Commission currently is not involved in the vetting of the Rita Valentine site for a police station.
Hinsvark said the city feels comfortable the station could be added to the park and not interfere with a conceptual plan created for the park four years ago. That plan included such ideas as a disc golf course and a dog park but was tabled by the City Council.
The City Council will hear presentations on the four potential police sites Oct. 15.
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Street Sweeping
The goal of the Street Sweeping program is to maintain the safety and cleanliness of our streets throughout the community, Effective March 1, Brea streets will be swept twice per month. Your schedule will be either the first and third week of the month or the second and forth weeks. View the 2019-20 Street Sweeping Calendar here. Please see the information below indicating the street sweeping schedule in your neighborhood.
Reference maps indicating the sweeping day for various neighborhoods can be viewed below.The following maps highlight various neighborhoods within the city. The maps separate Brea into two sections: East and West of the 57 Orange Freeway. See times and locations where sweeping occurs on various days of the week.
Holiday Schedule
The following are the holidays when the city will not be sweeping.
- New Year's Day
- Martin Luther King Day
- President's Day
- Memorial Day
- Independence Day
- Labor Day
- Thanksgiving Day and the Friday after
- Christmas Day
Parking During Sweeping Hours
Sweeping occurs between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m in residential tracts. Signs are posted at the entrances into various neighborhoods indicating the day of the week on which sweeping is scheduled.
At the January 15, 2019 Brea City Council Meeting, parking enforcement has been suspended for Brea's Street Sweeping Program for an approximately one-year evaluation period. Drivers will no longer be cited for parking on the streets during Street Sweeper Operation. To facilitate effective sweeping, residents are encouraged to remove their parked vehicles during the street sweeping operation, even those displaying overnight parking permits. By keeping vehicles off the street voluntarily, you can help Brea streets stay clean and safe.
The suspension of Street Sweeping Parking Enforcement has NO effect on the City's Overnight Parking Ordinance. Street parking in Brea is still prohibited between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. Citations will be written for violation of the ordinance. If you meet certain criteria, you may be granted an Overnight Parking Permit.
Cooperation is appreciated in the effort to enhance neighborhood cleanliness. For questions, call 714 990-7691.
Note: Trash service is provided under a commercial contract through Brea Disposal and is entirely separate from city-operated street sweeping.


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I've spent part of the morning setting up Gnus on my OS X, to replace Mail.app and ease synchronization with my GNU/Linux boxes. I won't enter in the details of basic Gnus setup (see, for instance, the Gnus tutorial), but offer some customization tips, and mention two of my favourite Gnus-enhancing packages (which are not OS X-specific, by the way).
First thing was to import my Mail.app mailboxes. Easy. Open the mailbox in Mail, select all messages and execute the menu command
Save as... (under
File); in the save dialog, be sure to select
Raw Message Source. The saved file is in mbox format, a Gnus import friendly one. All you need to get those messages into Gnus is to press
B f in the *Group* buffer, providing your mbox file when asked. A new group is created with all your messages. You can, for instance, mark all of them and
B c to copy them in, say, a regular
nnml group.
Setting Gnus to read and send messages via Gmail was also easy following the instructions here. A caveat: you'll need also the file ssl.el from the Gnus CVS repository to make POP3 work (and of course gnutls, which i installed via the fink package gnutls14; be sure to tell Emacs about your fink path:
(add-to-list 'exec-path "/sw/bin")).
With that, I had a functional Gnus running and could move on to more interesting stuff. I don't know about you, but i absolutely need random mail signatures, selected from my growing collection. To that end, i've been using randomsig.el since i can remember. Just put the file in your load path (or, if you're on Debian, install the
gnus-bonus-el package), and add to your initialisation files something along the lines of:
(when (require 'randomsig nil t) (define-key message-mode-map (kbd "C-c s") 'randomsig-replace-sig) (define-key message-mode-map (kbd "C-c S") 'randomsig-select-sig) (require 'gnus-sum) ; probably required for `gnus-summary-save-map' (define-key gnus-summary-save-map "-" 'gnus/randomsig-summary-read-sig) (setq randomsig-dir "~/Library/Emacs/Gnus/") (setq randomsig-files '("signatures.txt")) ;; or (setq randomsig-files (randomsig-search-sigfiles)) ;; or (setq randomsig-files 'randomsig-search-sigfiles) (setq message-signature 'randomsig-signature) (setq randomsig-delimiter-pattern "^--"))
As you can see, i put my signatures in a file called signatures.txt. Now, every time i start editing an email, a random signature taken from this file is inserted for me. If i don't like it, i can request another one typing
C-c s. And if i'm reading anything inside and Emacs buffer and find a new text to add to my
M-x randomsig-message-read-sig will add the region marked in the buffer to my collection. Perfect bliss.
Mail.app comes with a sophisticated search engine based on Spotlight. But i've noticed that i never use the 95% of its features, not to mention that it's annoyingly slow. What i really need is a simple and quick keyword search, and i've had it for many years now with Gnus and nnir.el. This package provides an Emacs/Gnus front-end to several indexers, my preferred one being namazu. So, besides getting
nnir.el, you'll need to install it. In Debian, it's as easy as installing the corresponding package (namazu2), but, theres no namazu package to be seen in fink. Fortunately, you can compile it from source just by following the instructions: they worked in my MacBook without a glitch. With namazu installed, you can index your extant email in a breeze: create a directory to hold the index files (i use
~/Library/Caches/namazu) and type:
cd ~/Library/Caches/namazu mknmz --mailnews ~/Library/Emacs/Gnus/Mail
(using the appropriate directories, of course), and the index directory will get populated. Now, with
nnir.el in your load path, tell Emacs how to find those index files:
(when (require 'nnir nil t) (setq nnir-search-engine 'namazu) (setq nnir-namazu-index-directory (expand-file-name "~/Library/Caches/namazu")) (setq nnir-namazu-remove-prefix (expand-file-name "~/Library/Emacs/Gnus/Mail/")) (setq nnir-mail-backend (nth 0 gnus-secondary-select-methods)))
(i put this code in my Gnus configuration file). We are all setup: go to the *Group* buffer and type
G G to search your emails. A temporal group containing the messages that match your query will be created for you, for your browsing pleasure. Inside that group,
G T will teletransport you to the original message, in case you need to recover its context. As you'll notice, namazu searches are at least an order of magnitude faster than Spotlight.
The only bit left is to set an entry in your crontab running
mknmz for you periodically (i've got it set up with a period of one hour). Indexing is incremental, i.e., fast. Yeah, it's not that immediate indexing of Spotlight or Beagle, but, you know, it's not like i get a mail every five seconds, or that i need engine to find a mail i read twenty minutes ago.
There are many other tricks to play with Gnus, but i'll save them for future posts :-).


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The Emergency Preparedness Unit supports the SJSU campus community by implementing programs and projects in emergency planning, training, response, mitigation and recovery.
Our mission is to prepare the campus to manage and recover from any type of emergency or disaster. We manage the following programs:
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Manny No Longer Being Manny
Oh, the wags at CitiField wagged, if only life worked like this. The cop catches you speeding or breaking or entering and you say "Never mind. I'll just take The Manny Ramirez and retire."
In fact it sometimes does work that way (ask onetime Vice President Spiro Agnew). And now apparently – and apparently not to the surprise of everybody in the Tampa Bay Rays organization – Manny has been caught doing something in violation of the drug testing policy and has simply retired rather than face the consequences.
Apparently it wasn't misconduct that worried the Rays in spring training. Quite the opposite. This was Super Cooperative Manny, volunteering for those long cross-Florida bus trips and willing to play left field or pinch hit or whatever. Seemed too good to be true to some.
And it was.
As to what drug this was, the three leading guesses are Formaldehyde, Botox, or the preservative they put in cookie dough.
DH, 1B, and LF duties will now be shared by some combination of Dan Johnson, Casey Kotchman, Johnny Damon, and Sam Fuld.
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At last, no more smirks, lazy-ass outfield play, and superior-than-thou self-righteousness.
Get a haircut, freak.
There is definitely nothing wrong with his hair.
Wait…with a little bit of that hair…if it is real and not extensions…they can tell everything that could be in question! Know what I mean?
"At last, no more smirks, lazy-ass outfield play, and superior-than-thou self-righteousness."
Do you mean this is your last one?
It could very well be Botox,I here a lot of men are doing it now!
Hello Keith!
I know nothing about baseball but I am learning about it with your posts.
I hope you like this collection:
How stupid is this guy?
Very stupid — I think I'm going to stop reading this column.
How will Manny get into the Hall Of Fame? By buying a ticket just like the rest of us.
Zip, I love the guy's hair. Hair never hurt anybody…or did it? As a child of the fifties and sixties…I will miss those good braids, bud.
Daisy, the KO School of Baseball is my alma mater, too! I am learning like crazy here. Even watching the games on TV! And watching some other mothers of sports celebs getting arrested, too! Woooo! This is almost soap opera!
Yeah, Keith. Real life is something. I got fired by the school board for supporting the new superintendent who was exposing corruption! Did not even need to do wrong! My leading drug guess is Miracle Gro, bro!
P.S. Taking steroids is not a very MANLY thing to do. Honesty in manly, Manny.
I wonder how much money he will still get for this year?
But I do love his hair.
It really was just a matter of time. But I do love his hair.
2 words: repeat offender. Correction, 3 words. Idiot.
One more word: Hair! They said on ESPN he would never make it to the Hall of Fame last night. I was like, WHAT? He will be lucky to make it to Spain! The saddest part is he did not say Goodbye to fans or team. How can that happen? HOW? When they interviewed his mates, they were sad and yet realistic. They all seemed like such good guys! How do you just LEAVE them after that beautiful albeit cheating experience? No hug. No apology. No lock of hair. What is going on in the world? Don't answer that.
Bethany, that's what happens when you leave the game in disgrace. No thank you's, no farewells, and most important, no questions asked.
Disgrace fits him well 🙂
Manny's whole career is tainted as are the two Sawx World Series wins (The Big Juici, Manny Juicing Manny, along with only-God-knows-who-else was Juicing or had previously Juiced, on that team).
You were entertaining, Manny, and I do wish you well, but you were entertaining much more for the negative than for the positive.
Good luck with Manny Retiring Manny.
How about this story (it's in Spanish, Google will translate for you)?
Vasectomy influenced Manny's retirement
Bye, you lying crock of s***. baseball does NOT need you. now, go play with charlie sheen and all those other publicity hounds.
A pathetic end to the career of one of the greatest hitters the game has ever seen. Even as a Yankee fan I can't deny how awesome this guy was in his prime. But now he's put the last nail in the coffin of any HoF hopes he may have had, despite his worthy numbers. I guess "Manny being Manny" finally bit Ramirez on the ass.
Isn't Spiro Agnew dead? We don't have either him OR Manny to kick around any more – oh, woe!
Don't ask me who is dead, because I am not sure. But, I did have this new idea last night. How about making a league called THE CHEETAHS? Divide the players up into teams and give them names that reflect famous cheaters. Have them play each other. That way, when they crack those balls to high heaven, everyone will already know and accept that they are cheating. Then, the players who are honest could just stay put. I also have an idea for the corporate sponsor for this league. You can guess who. In other news…while watching the Yankees yesterday on ESPN, the announcer came on and told me to take care of my beard and moustache! I had to take a trip to the mirror just to check. Game tonight! Best!
Maybe Manny has a female hormone imbalance. … Remember it is ALWAYS someone else at fault for any misdeed. Personal responsibility? Forget about it.
Manny was different during his Cleveland years according to Tribe beat writer Sheldon Ocker who will not be voting for him or the other druggies to enter the HOF.
Read here: http://bit.ly/eEg7vA
Bye Manny, we are not suffering from your loss!!


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On July 8, 2010, newly-installed Bishop of the Diocese of Long Island Larry Provenzano and his wife Jeanne visited SCI's Port Newark International Seafarers' Center, enjoying fellowship with port chaplains and sharing a meal with seafarers on board their vessel.
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The last thing I expected to be reminded of while playing the new survival mode for Modern Warfare 3 was a tower defense game. The co-op mode, which I'm told is endless, pits you against increasingly more challenging enemies that come at you in waves. As you kill enemies you earn money, which can be put toward buying new guns, refreshing your ammo, or, in true Call of Duty fashion, calling in an air strike. It's sort of like the horde mode from Gears of War meets Desktop Tower Defense.
The first wave was simple enough. A few of what looked to be mercenaries armed with shotguns flooded the map, coming in from a few different sides. With two players it was relatively easy to take them down, even though we were armed with little more than small handguns. But as the number of enemies on screen decreases, the amount of money you have in the bank increases. You can then head to an armory in between rounds to buy better gear.
The armory consists of little more than a laptop in a dilapidated building, but from it you can purchase new weapons and ammo. One of the more useful upgrades we managed to buy early on was a sentry gun that automatically mowed down any enemies that had the misfortune of walking past it. Of course, you can visit the armory any time in the game, not just in between rounds, but it's a little more difficult to buy stuff when someone is shooting you.
Upgrading is a necessity, as the difficulty ratchets up rather quickly. I only played through five rounds, but during that time I saw mercenaries give way to full-fledged soldiers, who were eventually joined by vicious dogs and helicopters. In the last round I played, some of the soldiers had strapped themselves with explosives, making them especially deadly.
What's most interesting about the mode, though, is the way in which enemies spawn on the map. They don't come in from a fixed location. Instead, where they spawn depends on where you and your partner are located. So if you decide to hole up in a warehouse, enemies will start coming in through the entrances. If you're in a more open area, expect to find yourself surrounded. I could generally guess where the enemies would come flooding in, but I could never be certain, making the initial moments of each wave especially tense. It also made the placement of something like a sentry gun crucial to survival.
The Call of Duty franchise has become one that's all about spectacle, with each new game bigger and louder than the last. So it'll be interesting to see if the survival mode follows along these lines. It didn't take long before I had to take down a pair of helicopters, so what lies in wait in the later stages?
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is coming to the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC on November 8.


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Decision in the case of Marin Cilic
London, Sept 16, 2013: The International Tennis Federation announced today that Marin Cilic has been found to have committed an Anti-Doping Rule Violation under Article 2.1 of the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme (presence of a Prohibited Substance in a Player's Sample).
Mr Cilic, a 24-year-old player from Croatia, provided a urine sample in association with his participation in the BMW Open event in Munich, Germany. That sample was sent to the WADA-accredited laboratory in Montreal, Canada for analysis, and was found to contain nikethamide, which is a Prohibited Substance under section S6 (Stimulants) of the 2013 WADA List of Prohibited Substances and Prohibited Methods, and is therefore also prohibited under the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme (the "Programme"). Mr Cilic was therefore charged with an Anti-Doping Rule Violation under Article 2.1 of the Programme.
Mr Cilic asserted that the nikethamide, for which he did not hold a valid TUE, had entered his system through his ingestion of Coramine glucose tablets that had been purchased on his behalf from a pharmacy.
The Independent Tribunal found that Mr Cilic ingested the nikethamide inadvertently as a result of taking the Coramine glucose tablets, and did not intend to enhance his performance in doing so, and that he therefore met the preconditions of Article 10.4 of the Programme, which entitles him to a reduction of the Period of Ineligibility for Specified Substance based on an assessment of his fault.
Mr Cilic's commission of an Anti-Doping Rule Violation under Article 2.1 of the Programme was confirmed, and it was determined that he is suspended from participation for a period of nine months, back-dated to commence from 1 May 2013, the date on which he provided the sample concerned, and so ending at midnight on 31 January 2014. It was also determined that Mr Cilic's results at the 2013 BMW Open event should be disqualified, with resulting forfeiture of the ranking points and prize money that he won at those events. Mr Cilic's results subsequent to the BMW Open, up to the time that he accepted a voluntary provisional suspension are also disqualified, and the ranking points and prize money forfeited. A fully-reasoned decision will follow in due course.
The Tennis Anti-Doping Programme is a comprehensive and internationally recognised drug-testing programme that applies to all players competing at Grand Slam tournaments and events sanctioned by the ITF, ATP, and WTA. Players are tested for substances prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency and, upon a finding that an Anti-Doping Rule Violation has been committed, sanctions are imposed in accordance with the requirements of the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme and World Anti-Doping Code. More background information on the Programme, sanctions, tennis statistics and related information can be found at www.itftennis.com/antidoping. —- ITF


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In 1951 Father Theodosios Makkos saved the life of Prince Hussein who
later became king of Jordan. Father Theodosios was born in Smyrna, Asia
Minor, present day Turkey, on July 11, 1913. He became an orphan at an
early age and was reared by his grandmother and aunt. He had a burning
desire to become a monk and serve the Church in the Holy Land. He came
to Palestine in 1928 and remained there until his death, 1991 at the age of
78 years old. He served the Church of Jerusalem with great devotion at various
places and positions for 63 years. His last 50 years he was the spiritual
father and resident priest at the monastery for women, Saints Mary and
Martha, sisters of Lazarus in Bethany, a suburb of Jerusalem.
While in Palestine he befriended King Abdullah. In July 1951 the king
made a pilgrimage to the holy shrine of Omar at Jerusalem with his
grandson Prince Hussein. The prince was a very young man at that time. While in
Jerusalem King Abdullah was assassinated. Father Theodosios was present,
accompanying the king. He immediately took the young prince under his
cassock (Rasson) and brought him to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of
Jerusalem. The prince was hidden there. Fr. Theodosios reported the
Patriarch about the tragedy of the assassination of King Abdullah and
was greatly concerned for the safety and life of the young prince. The
Patriarch, before the rebels cut off the phones, placed a call to the
Jordanian authorities that the young prince is alive and hidden in a
safe place in the Orthodox Patriarchate. The Jordanian government sent
appropriate officials to the Patriarchate and took the young prince
under the protection of Jordan. For that reason King Hussein always was indebted
to the Elder Theodosios for saving his life. He visited often the simple
monk Theodosios in his monastery in Bethany. When later the prince
became king he continued to have close relations and visit him at the monastery
and Fr. Theodosios had an easy access to the king's palace. Fr.Theodosios
was able to enter the palace at any time. He helped numerous people
through his good word to the king. The king requested the Patriarch to elevate
him to the Episcopate. Elder Theodosios was elected by the synod three times
to be elevated but he refused the honor. He chose to remain a simple monk
to serve the nuns at the monastery of Martha and Mary. He was well known
throughout the region for his love and charity for all people without
regard of religion or race. He loved all people without distinction and
dedicated to charity and the service of justice. When I was in Jerusalem
for the month of January 1986 on a mission of study and dialogue with
Jews and Muslims I had the honor to meet Fr. Theodosios. I visited him in the
monastery and he told me the story. He also told me that whenever the
king greeted him as a sign of respect the king opened his palm for him to
kiss, whereas the other people kissed the back of his hand. This is a
remarkable story of friendship of a simple monk and a king, a Greek Orthodox
Christian and the other a Muslim. Father Theodosios dedicated his entire life to
protect the shrines and people who live in Palestine that he loved so
much. Especially he was honored for saving the life of the future king from
certain death. This is a great example for all people to follow, that is,
to love all and protect the life of all regardless of religious
affiliation, nationality or race. All people are people of God created
in His image. I was blessed to have known the Blessed Elder Theodosios. All
must emulate his example of love and respect for the other.
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Confusion expected as analog TV broadcasts end
June 12, 2009
PETER SVENSSON AP Technology Writer NEW YORK
TV stations across the U.S. started cutting their analog signals Friday morning, ending a 60-year run for the technology and likely stranding more than 1 million unprepared homes without TV service. The Fede ral Communi cat i ons Commission put 4,000 operators on standby for calls from confused viewers, and set up demonstration centers in several cities. Volunteer groups and local government agencies were helping elderly viewers set up digital converter boxes that keep older Tvs functioning. Sets hooked up to cable or satellite feeds are unaffected by the transition. "When you're alone like me, that's my partner," Patricia Bruchalski, 82, said about her TV. Bruchalski, a pianist and former opera singer who lives in Brooklyn Park, Md., got assistance Thursday from Anne Arundel County's Department of Aging and Disabilities and a community organization called Partners in Care. After her converter box was installed, Bruchalski marveled that digital broadcasts seemed clearer and gave her more channels about 15 instead of the three she was used to. "You're going to be up all night watching TV now," volunteer installer Rick Ebling told her. A survey sponsored by broadcasters showed that Americans are well aware of the analog shutdown, thanks to a yearlong barrage of TV ads. But many people simply procrastinated. "We know some viewers will wait until the very last minute, or even after June 12, until they take action," said Paul Karpowicz, second vice chair of the television board of the National Association of Broadcasters. Laura Hand, community relations director for Barrington Broadcasting Co.'s three-channel station in Syracuse, N.Y., said her company had received only about a dozen calls and half that many e-mails by 8:30 a.m., even though Barrington's NBC affiliate went off the air entirely. It abandoned analog at midnight, and its digital equivalent won't be back up until this weekend, because it needs to move to another frequency. Many other stations will be moving to new frequencies as well, which is why even antenna-equipped digital TV sets and older sets hooked up to converter boxes need to be set to "re-scan" the airwaves today. Some people might also need new antennas, because digital signals travel differently than analog ones. While an analog station that came in imperfectly might have had static but remained viewable, digital generally comes in all or nothing. Indeed, one of Bruchalski's newly available stations looked pixelated, and Ebling said she might have to get a different antenna. The shutdown of analog channels opens part of the airwaves for modern applications like wireless broadband and TV services for cell phones. It was originally scheduled for Feb. 17, but the government's fund for $40 converter box coupons ran out of money in early January, prompting the incoming Obama administration to push for a delay. The converter box program got additional funding in the national stimulus package. Research firm SmithGeiger LLC said Thursday that about 2.2 million households were still unprepared as of last week. Sponsored by the broadcasters' association, it surveyed 948 households that relied on antennas and found that 1 in 8 had not connected a digital TV or digital converter box. Nielsen Co., which measures TV ratings with the help of a wide panel of households, put the number of unready homes at 2.8 million, or 2.5 percent of the total television market, as of Sunday. In February, the number was 5.8 million. Nearly half of the nation's 1,760 fullpower TV stations have already cut their analog signals, though they are mostly in less populated areas. Those ending the signals today will do so throughout the day, with many waiting until the evening. Even after today, low-power analog stations and rural relay stations known as "translators" will still be available in some areas. And about 100 full-power stations will keep an analog "night light" on for a few weeks, informing viewers of the need to switch to digital reception.


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Carved from a hundred million pounds of stone, soaring effortlessly atop a spider web of masonry, Gothic cathedrals are marvels of human achievement and artistry. But how did medieval builders reach such spectacular heights? Consuming the labor of entire towns, sometimes taking a hundred years to build, these architectural marvels were crafted from just hand tools and stone. Many now teeter on the brink of catastrophic collapse. To save them, an international team of engineers, architects, art historians and computer scientists searches the naves, bays and bell-towers for clues to how the dream of these heavenly temples on earth came true. NOVA's teams perform hands-on experiments to investigate and reveal the architectural secrets that the cathedral builders used to erect their soaring, glass-filled walls. On this dazzling journey, inside the jewels of Gothic architecture, the filmmakers of the award-winning NOVA documentary "Secrets of the Parthenon" reveal the hidden formulas, drawn from the pages of the Bible itself, that drove medieval builders ever upward.
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As Congress wrestles with what, if anything, it can or should do about the Obama administration's use of drones to kill terrorists in Yemen and other nations, the controversy has created unusual political alliances.
At Tuesday's hearing of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution which examined President Obama's drone policy, Sen. Al Franken, the liberal Democrat from Minnesota, noted that he's aligned with Texas conservative Republican Sen. Ted Cruz on this issue: "You know we're in strange territory when Sen. Cruz and I have the same questions" about Obama's drone strategy.
Meanwhile Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who'd been sharply critical of the Obama administration just a few hours earlier for its decision to not deem Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev an enemy combatant, lavished praise on Obama and his use of the unmanned aerial weapons.
"I want to applaud the Obama administration for, I think, an aggressive and responsible use of the drone program, particularly in parts of the world where we don't have ground forces," he told the hearing.
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Senate Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., left, shakes hands with witness Farea al-Muslimi of Yemen, at the start of the hearing on drone use on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 23, 2013.
Graham said Obama was "serious" and "thoughtful" and "I think he takes his responsibility, when it comes to targeting people, in a very commander-in-chief-like way."
While the Boston bombing and the threat of domestic terrorism has, for a week at least, shunted the drone issue out of the spotlight, some members of Congress remain uneasy about Obama's policy of using the unmanned vehicles to kill terrorist suspects. But it seems doubtful whether their worrying will lead to actual lawmaking which would limit Obama's powers – such as the creation of a panel of judges to review particular targeted killings or revising the 2001 congressional authorization to use force.
Indicating that it wasn't taking the hearing all too seriously, the Obama administration did not even send a witness to explain its position – which prompted subcommittee chairman Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., to say he was "disappointed."
Durbin noted that he had voted for the 2001 authorization for use of military force, enacted a few days after the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. The Obama administration cites that congressional resolution as its authority to use the drone strikes against terrorists from Pakistan to Yemen. But Durbin said, "I didn't realize – and I don't think that many members did – that we would be having this conversation 12 years later about Yemen, Somalia, even Pakistan. Maybe I should have been able to discern that, but I didn't."
The hearing about the legality of Obama's drone policy also addressed the strategic questions of whether the drone strikes in Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia were alienating people in those countries and inadvertently creating support for Islamic jihadists. "I am worried we have lost the moral high ground," said retired Marine Gen. James Cartwright, the former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. And a Yemini who was partly educated in the United States, Farea Al-Muslimi, told the committee that drone strikes are making Yemenis hate and fear America. "When they think of America, they think of the terror they feel from the drones that hover over their heads ready to fire missiles at any time."
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., compliments President Barack Obama's "thoughtful" handling of targeted unmanned aircraft strikes.
Retired Air Force Col. Martha McSally, a veteran pilot who served for 22 years and who was a Republican House candidate in Arizona last year, told the committee that remotely piloted aircraft (a term she prefers to "drone") offer advantages over other weapons: they can linger over a target area for hours and are often superior to other means of lethal force such as artillery, jet fighters, or combat troops. There's a "very fleeting moment" when a terrorist is in a particular spot and can be targeted. "You actually have the lawyers sitting side by side with you" as the decision is made to attack the target. "You can wait until the moment you have positive identification and all the criteria have been met," she said.
Another witness, Peter Bergen, the director of the New America Foundation's National Security Studies Program, told the committee that Obama had ordered six times as many drone strikes in Pakistan as President George W. Bush did during his eight years in office. He said there was only one drone strike in Yemen under Bush; there have been 46 ordered by Obama in Yemen.
And Bergen said it's no longer the leaders of al Qaida or its affiliates whom Obama is targeting. "What was initially started as program to target high-level members of al Qaida has in a sense evolved – particularly in Pakistan -- into a kind of counter-insurgency air force."
Despite the focus on the effects of the remotely piloted aircraft in places such as Yemen, inevitably the hearing reverted at points to members' concern that a president might someday use a drone against an American citizen at home.
"We had a situation in Boston," Franken noted, referring to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. "We had a guy holed up in a backyard in a boat. And he by all accounts had explosives and they did send a robot to go in to take off the top off the boat. But isn't it possible that we could see a situation in which we might want to take that person out in a different way – as odd as that is for me to ask?"
Franken also asked what was the difference – once the president and his aides choose a particular terrorist to be killed – between using a remotely piloted aircraft and using another weapon?
McSally replied that a remotely piloted aircraft, or RPA, "gives you better precision with a smaller warhead." When the United States sends in piloted jet aircraft or Special Forces, there may be greater risks. "The RPA gives us asymmetric capability where we don't have to risk American forces – and that's not a bad thing to not risk American forces…."
Another witness, George Mason University law professor Ilya Somin noted that "what matters is not whether we're using a drone or a bomb or a plane -- or even a sword or dagger," but whether the president has chosen the right target.
But Rosa Brooks, professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, said Obama was setting a bad example for the use of drones by leaders of other nations who want to wipe out their own political dissidents living in exile: "We have essentially handed a playbook for abuse to oppressive governments around the world," she told Durbin.
This story was originally published on Wed Apr 24, 2013 10:11 AM EDT


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Cycling Canada is pleased to announce its eight-man roster that will be competing at the inaugural 2013 Tour of Alberta, which begins on September 3rd.
Rob Britton of Victoria, BC (Team Raleigh) will be leading the charge for Team Canada, joined by two-time U23 Canadian Road Champion Antoine Duchesne of Quebec, QC (Bontrager Cycling Team), Garret McLeod of Wolfville, NS (Team H&R Block), Stuart Wight of Riverview, NB (Hagens Berman Cycling), Ryan Aitcheson of Kitchener, ON (Astellas Oncology Cycling Team), Jean-Sébastien Perron of Gatineau, QC (Stevens Racing p/b The Cyclery), Jean-Michel Lachance of Québec, QC (Predator Carbon Repair Cycling Team) and Derrick St-John of Gatineau, QC (Stevens Racing p/b The Cyclery).
The 2013 Tour of Alberta kicks off its inaugural year in Edmonton, with a 7.8 km prologue to set the pace for the week-long cycling festivities. Throughout the race, the peloton will travel approximately 840 kilometres.
Every stage of the race will be broadcast live on Rogers Sportsnet.
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Supreme Court Weighs Arguments on Agency's Move to Cut Emissions From Stationary Polluters
WASHINGTON—An Obama-administration effort to cut greenhouse-gas emissions faced an uncertain fate at the Supreme Court on Monday, with justices sharply divided over industry claims that the government is going too far in applying the Clean Air Act.
At issue is an effort by the Environmental Protection Agency to continue curbing emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. About four years ago, the EPA issued emissions standards for vehicles, a move the agency said...
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10(j) Injunction Activity at the National Labor Relations Board
Section 10(j) of the National Labor Relations Act authorizes the National Labor Relations Board to seek temporary injunctions against employers and unions in federal district courts to stop unfair labor practices while the case is being litigated before administrative law judges and the Board. These temporary injunctions are needed to protect the process of collective bargaining and employee rights under the Act, and to ensure that Board decisions will be meaningful. The section was added as part of a set of reforms to the Act in 1947. Over the years, all NLRB General Counsels have made use of this effective enforcement tool, as shown in this chart.
There are 15 categories of labor disputes in which Section 10(j) injunctions may be appropriate, listed here. Under NLRB processes, potential cases are identified by Regional Offices and reviewed by the General Counsel, who must seek authorization from the Board before proceeding to court. Below is a list of all 10(j) injunction cases authorized by the Board since September 1, 2010, with status updates.
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Read here from jsonline this morning. Tom Silverstein paints a relatively bleak picture for a possible return by Al Harris this season. So, in the interim, it would be smart to start thinking about who will replace him. As Silverstein points out, it will likely be Tramon Williams or Will Blackmon. By the way, there is no way Tramon is 5'11". Blackmon is listed at 6'0" – no way they are one inch apart. I suppose it's possible that Blackmon just plays bigger and more upright or something, but Tramon seems quite small out there in comparison. Still, it was interesting during the Cowboy game to see Tramon matched up on the much bigger TO (this happened 3 times by my count when another WR went in motion and Woodson dropped TO to cover that other WR). Tramon's tight coverage on TO each time forced Romo out of his first read. And, as Kurt Shottenheimer notes, outside of the big play against Miles Austin, Tramon had a solid game.
In the end, I'm OK with Tramon Williams filling in next to Woodson as the starting corner. He's a good player and his speed could really be helpful out there not just for marking his own man, but to run down players who break free into the open field. One of the most amazing things I've seen in a long time on a football field happened during the Dallas game. Felix Jones had turned the corner on the far side of the field and started flying upfield to eventually score a TD on that 60 yard run. He was moving really fast. Tramon Williams was defending against a WR on the near side, far from the play. When he realized Jones was making a bee line for the end zone, Williams turned on the jets and if it weren't for a solid block by TO right near the end zone I believe, Williams might have made the tackle. I can't remember seeing live, a player closing that fast. It was absolutely unreal to watch. Williams had far more ground to cover than Jones and yet he nearly beat Jones to the end zone – and Jones isn't slow.
That said, if Tramon struggles (as teams will inevitably game-plan to throw the ball his way now), having Blackmon as an alternative is a good thing. He is proving to be one of those players who makes things happen as he proved Sunday against Dallas. While it's nice to have a couple quality back-ups like this, the Harris injury does deplete our overall secondary depth though – leaving us vulnerable if any other injuries happen. (We'll see though, Pat Lee did have a nice preseason and showed flashes of some play-making ability). In the end, I wish Al well and hope for a speedy recovery.